Frontiera (2018)
Genre : Drama
Runtime : 15M
Director : Alessandro Di Gregorio
Writer : Ezio Abbate
Synopsis
On a ferry travelling towards Lampedusa, we find a teenager on his first day of work as a gravedigger and a boy on his first mission as a diver. They do not know each other, but when they will set foot on the island, both their lives will change forever: one has to retrieve the bodies of drowned shipwreck victims, the other one has to bury them. A sort of dance between life and death, innocence and its loss.
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